Background
Fisher, Adrian Sanford was born on January 21, 1914 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Hubert Frederick and Louise (Sanford) Fisher.
Fisher, Adrian Sanford was born on January 21, 1914 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of Hubert Frederick and Louise (Sanford) Fisher.
Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1934, Doctor of Laws, 1965. Bachelor of Laws, Harvard, 1937, Georgetown University, 1977.
Admitted to Tennessee bar, 1938. Law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Brandeis, 1938, Justice Frankfurter, 1939. Attorney various government agencies, 1939-1941.
Assistant chief
Foreign Funds Control division unites states department State, 1941-1942. Assistant to assistant secretary of war, 1944. Solicitor unites states department Commerce, 1947-1948.
General counsel Atomic Energy Commission, 1948-1949.
Legal adviser Department State, 1949-1953. Deputy director United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1961-1969, United States representative ENDC, Geneva, 1964, 66-69, United States ambassador to Conference of Committee on Disarmament Geneva, 1977-1983.
Private law practice, former associate Covington & Burling. Vice president counsel Washington Post Company.
Professor international law and international trade, Georgetown University Law Center, dean, 1969-1975, Francis Cabell Brown professor international law, 1975-1977.
Legal adviser to the United States Delaware to Press, Paris, 1952. Member President's Commmn. on Immigration and Naturalization. Member United States Panel Permanent Court Arbitration.
Technology adviser to the United States judges, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946.
Served to captain United States Army Air Force, 1942-1943, 45. Member American Law Institute, American Bar Association, Bar Association District of Columbia, Phi Beta Kappa. Club: Metropolitan (Washington).
Married Laura Graham, January 12, 1945. Children: Laura Donelson, Louise Sanford.